#ought

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. ↗

— David Antin

#hard #hardly #how #i #imagine

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#basketball #basketball court #court #game #goes

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#certain #fit #had #i #i always

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #appreciate #day #different #felt

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#good #how #i #look #never

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#always #ancestors #could #happen #our

High thoughts must have high language. ↗

— Aristophanes

#language #must #thoughts

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ↗

— Aristotle

#been #down #even #laws #ought

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#assistants #battalion #does #happiness #more